Plan01 is our second firm. The collective brought together the firms of Koz, Philéas, Jean Bocabeille, and Ignacio Prego. This consciously atypical constellation allowed us to develop highly unusual projects in the name of experimentation and collective intelligence. It is an engine for a positive spirit of emulation, one that breaks old habits and avoids prefabricated ideas. The only condition is that the topics should be open, aware, and conducive to innovation. Plan01 has no formal hierarchy, and the logic of any given project and the modes of operation are reinvented each time we take on a new project. Plan01 is an architectural label. And since we almost all share the same workspace, it's our shared home as well.

Historial de Vendée History Museum in Lucs-sur-Boulogne (France)Nominated for the 2005 Equerre d’Argent Prize and presented at the 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
A building hidden away amidst forested meadows in the Vendée. A vast green roof that, in summer and in winter, whether covered in plants or bare, blends into the meadow on which it rests. An emblematic building in green and bronze that deconstructs monumentalism for the benefit of a sense of openness to the landscape.

Crematorium in Rennes (France)Nominated for the 2011 Mies van der Rohe Prize and awarded the 2010 Brittany Special Architecture Prize.
The common denominator is the circle, which is the leitmotif of the project’s architecture and landscape. Its symbolism remains open; it evokes the biological cell, constellations, the image of primitive burial sites, and even recent Land Art figures.

Visitor centre of the Franco-British Memorial in Thiepval (France)
The visitor’s center and museum is a long hall of steel, glass, and brick embedded in the soil. Visitors leave behind the vast landscapes of the Somme when they park their cars and walk down a narrow, sloping path towards this almost immaterial building, a walk that literally recreates the experience of being in the trenches.